Music businessmen
- Lou Adler, record producer, manager, and
director who helped organize the Monterey Pop Festival
- Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records, inducted into the
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Phil Chess, co-founder of Chess Records
- Michael Cohl, Canadian rock'n'roll promoter
- Bob Ezrin, Canadian music producer who worked on Pink Floyd's The Wall
- Milt Gabler, a record producer, responsible for many innovations in
the recording industry of the 20th century, inducted into the
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- David Geffen (1943-), record executive, film producer, theatrical
producer, and philanthropist
- Bill Graham, an American rock concert promoter inducted into the
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Albert Grossman, an entrepreneur and manager in the American folk
music scene. He was most famous as the manager of Bob Dylan between
1962 and 1970
- Don Kirshner, music coordinator for The Monkees
- Artie Kornfeld, music promoter for Woodstock held on Max Yasgur's farm
- Allen Klein, managed The Rolling Stones and The Beatles for a time.
- Steven Miller, music producer and executive best known for his
association with
- Windham Hill Records
- Bob Rafelson, producer of The Monkees
- Gabe Sandler, producer, DJ, and promoter known for organizing
electronic music events in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
- Phil Spector, music producer inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of
Fame
- Seymour Stein, co-founder of Sire Records with acts like Talking Heads
and The Ramones, inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
- Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein, produced rock concerts and later
founded Miramax
- Jerry Wexler, a music journalist turned music producer, and is
regarded as one of the major record industry players behind 1960s soul
music after he coined the term Rhythm and Blues, inducted into the
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame
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